The New York World prints a list showing that forty-two deaths of persons attended by the "divine healers" of Christian Science have occurred since 1896.
At a recent public meeting, where people attend for the purpose of worship and to preach the gospel of Christ, we were not a little but a great deal surprised to hear from the lips of one of the exhorters words of deep condemnation of the doctrine of Christian Science and statements concerning it that only a person lacking in information about the' subject he was discussing.
The meeting which was held in New York last week to discuss the problems which the growing Christian Science Church presented, was one of the most interesting events of the kind on record.
A Christian Scientist
with contributions from Hazlitt
To The Commercial Appeal:— In your editorial yesterday on "Curing by Faith" there was a mistake which I am sure you will be glad to rectify, as it would seem to put Christian Science in an unfavorable light with those who do not understand its principles and practice.
To the Editor of the Standard:— I see in your paper from time to time mention of cases where the Christian Scientists, faith curers, and "higher spheres" Christian Scientists, so-called, and others, who have no right to the name, have failed and in some cases the healers have been brought before the court, but I do not see the result of the trials published in the same.
I was
present last Thursday evening at the meeting of the Aldermanic committee, where a large assemblage of representative citizens of Buffalo were gathered to listen to a controversy between Christian Scientists and the doctors.
